Heartbreakers Come Together On 2 CD's (GenQ Music)

Heartbreakers Come Together On 2 CD's

By Leigh May
Music Editor

Published Feb 21, 2008

Some people say that music is a form of magic, for it has the ability to change someone's mood. I have to agree with this, as it is something I can always rely on to make me happy, calm me down, make me cry, or just make me feel that I'm not the only one who feels a certain way. Music is one of the few things in this world that truly is universal. Out of all the different styles of music out there, my favourite type is ballads. I always love listening to the emotion in a singers voice when singing about their lost love, or how much they love someone. When you look at my cd collection, the number of ballad cd's I have outweighs the rest.

With the just-released compilation, Heartbreakers, there are a lot of songs that I love, both recent and from the past. Some of these are Annie Lennox's Why, Evanescence's My Immortal (the original version), Dido's White Flag, and ABBA's The Winner Takes It All ... and these are all just on the FIRST disc. Of course, there are also the classic ballads that every good compilation should have, such as R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts, Jewel's Foolish Games, Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U, and Nick Cave's Into My Arms.

On Disc 2 are some of the less-known (but equally powerful) ballads, such as Ben Folds Five's Brick, Tori Amos's Winter, Lamb's Gorecki, and Billie Holiday's Gloomy Sunday, and some classic tracks like David Bowie's Space Oddity, Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, and The Smiths' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.

For anyone out there that enjoys ballads, this is DEFINITELY a must-have for your collection, with so many themes ranging from breaking-up, death of a loved one, obsession, love, and even abortion.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
	1.	Eva Cassidy – Fields Of Gold
	2.	R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts (Album Version)
	3.	Evanescence – My Immortal
	4.	Missy Higgins – Where I Stood
	5.	Annie Lennox – Why
	6.	Jewel – Foolish Games (Album Version)
	7.	Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
	8.	Dido – White Flag
	9.	Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (Album Version)
	10.	Tina Arena – So Far Away
	11.	Elton John – The Last Song (Album Version
	12.	Everything But The Girl – Missing
	13.	Sinead O’connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
	14.	Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work
	15.	Lou Reed – Perfect Day
	16.	Abba – The Winner Takes It All
	17.	Roxy Music – Jealous Guy
	18.	Nelly Furtado – All Good Things (Come To An End)
Disc 2
	1.	Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
	2.	Tori Amos – Winter
	3.	Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
	4.	Sarah Mclachlan – Good Enough
	5.	Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set – I Thought You Were God
	6.	Ben Folds Five – Brick
	7.	The Cure – Love Song
	8.	KT Tunstall – Other Side Of The World
	9.	Natalie Merchant – Break Your Heart (Remastered Lp Version)
	10.	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms
	11.	Lily Allen – Littlest Things
	12.	Lamb – Gorecki
	13.	Tanita Tikaram – Twist In My Sobriety
	14.	The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (2007 Remastered Version)
	15.	The Beloved – Deliver Me
	16.	David Bowie – Space Oddity
	17.	Blur – No Distance Left To Run
	18.	Julie London – Cry Me A River
	19.	Billie Holiday – Gloomy Sunday